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Preview: Collector Rugs and Textiles at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden, 30 November 2013
Rippon Boswell will hold their autumn sale of Collector Rugs and Textiles in Wiesbaden, Germany on Saturday 30th November 2013. The auction is open to preview daily from Wednesday 27th until the morning of the sale.
Uzbek textiles on show in Calgary, Alberta until January 2014
‘Ram Horns and Scorpion Tails: Textiles from Uzbekistan’, which opened on 8 November 2013 in in the new Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary, features a selection of Uzbek rural flatwoven and embroidered textiles and knotted pile rugs from the Jean and Marie Erikson…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
San Francisco Bay Area: Central Asian Textiles exhibition
Richard Mull writes: Tom Cole’s home/gallery in San Rafael, California, with the regular receptions and exhibitions he hosts, is now something of an anachronism in the Bay Area rug world.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
Transylvania's carpet treasures come to Gdansk, Poland
Two dozen important Turkish rugs from the collection of the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu, Romania will be on display at the National Museum of Gdansk, Poland from 16th November 2013 to 16th February 2014.
The Arts scene in San Francisco
Without doubt ARTS at the Capri in October makes San Francisco Rug Week the most important annual event in the rug calendar. A review of the event will appear in the next of HALI published on 23 December but here we continue our pictorial review of what went on at the 2013…
